Abigail Disney slams Kobe Bryant yet again in 24-tweet rant about alleged 2003 rape: 'He was not a god'
Abigail Disney unleashed a 24-tweet Twitter rant detailing and highlighting the rape case allegations surrounding late NBA star Kobe Bryant. She had started the rant with the first tweet on Saturday, February 1. She then went on to share a series of tweets where she spoke about the Bryant and the case.
The Disney heiress went on a long Twitter rant recently after she slammed late basketball legend over his 2003 rape allegations.
The 60-year-old had first addressed the rape allegations in a tweet that she had shared around four days after the NBA star, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others died in a fatal helicopter crash.
She shared a tweet along with a Washington Post article and said, "The man was a rapist. Deal with it."
Over the weekend, she shared around 24 tweets where she maintained her stance about the star but admitted that she still "mourned him".
In her first tweet she had written, "OK, time to bite the bullet and say something. If you don't like it, just stop following. First of all, yes, it IS my business because I'm a woman who has herself been assaulted and spent my life knowing, loving and feeling for women for whom it's been so much worse."
Abigail went on to share her condolences with the Bryant family and also said that a person can do "both good and bad" in a lifetime. She added that all the good that he has accomplished does not free him of allegedly raping someone.
"I mourn Kobe too. He went on to be a man who seemed genuinely to want to do good. The face that he raped someone does not change any of these other facts. A person can, in one lifetime, do both good and bad. We all do, in fact, even the sanctimonious folks on Twitter," she shared.
She then proceeded to detail out the rape allegations that had tainted Bryant's career. In 2003, a 19-year-old woman accused him of sexually assaulting her while she was in Eagle, Colorado, for a knee operation.
Bryant had allegedly invited the woman to his room where Bryant believed that they had consensual sex but the woman said it was rape. The criminal case never went to trial as the woman refused to testify in court and Bryant reached a settlement with the woman in civil court.
Abigail further tweeted that it can be "excruciating" to watch someone who hurt someone else get "sainthood treatment". "Yes, we should mourn him... But don't deify him because he was not a god," she added.
Abigail is the daughter of Patricia Ann (née Dailey) and Roy E Disney and granddaughter of Roy O Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company with her great uncle Walt Disney.